Ian Probstein
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Ian Probstein
New York, USA

Ian Probstein is a poet, scholar, and translator of poetry. He has authored, edited, and/or translated many books, including The River of Time: Time-Space, Language, and History in Avant-Garde, Modernist, and Contemporary Poetry (Boston, 2017); Complete annotated edition of T. S. Eliot’s Poetry and Plays (St. Petersburg, 2019); Charles Bernstein. Sign Under Test: Selected Poems and Essays (Moscow, 2020); Contemporary American Poetry in Russian from Black Mountain Poets to Language Poetry, co-editor with Vl. Feshchenko;Centuries Encircle me with Fire: Selected Poems of Osip Mandelstam, a bilingual edition. Translation, introduction, and commentary by Ian Probstein (Boston, 2022); Dmitry Strotsev. War and Peace. Selected poems translated into English (New York, 2025), etc.

Bookshelf
Naza s book
by Naza Semoniff

A haunting dystopia some readers have called “the new 1984.” In a society where memory is rewritten and resistance is pre-approved, freedom isn’t restricted; it’s redefined. As systems evolve beyond human control and choice becomes a simulation, true defiance means refusing the script, even when the system already knows you will.

Version 1.0.0
by Nina Kossman

 

A new book of poems by Nina Kossman. “When the mythological and personal meet, something transforms for this reader…” -Ilya Kaminsky

Olga Stein cover
by Olga Stein

A collection of poems by Olga Stein.

Naza image
by Naza Semoniff

This isn’t self-help. It’s not a parody either. It’s something stranger and smarter: a satirical, uncategorizable book about belief, leadership, algorithmic power, and the performance of divinity in modern life.

Videos
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EastWest Literary Forum Bilingual Poetry & Prose Reading. July 13, 2025.
Length: 2 hrs. 08 min